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KAPPA ALPHA MEMORIAL HALL. 



For many years the project has been agitated of building a hall on 
the grounds of Washington and Lee University, at Lexington, Va. , 
to memorialize the founding of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity at 
Washington and Lee University in 1865. The plans have now taken 
definite shape, and a charter has been obtained under the laws of Vir- 
ginia, a copy of which will be found with this circular, under which 
it is confidently anticipated that this project will be made successful. 
Kappa Alphas everywhere are inquiring and taking the keenest inter- 
est in the movement. 

The following are the trustees named in the charter: 

S. Z. Ammen, Baltimore, Md. ; Tazewell T. Hubard, Norfolk, Va. ; 
Prof. J. R. Long, of Washington and Lee University, Lexington, 
Va. ; Col. Francis Mallory, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, 
Va. ; Greenlee D. Letcher, Lexington, Va. 

Brother S. Z. Ammen, several times Knight Commander, and 
Brother T. T. Hubard, Grand Historian, need no introduction. 
Brother J. R. Long is now Professor of Law at Washington and Lee 
University, and was member of Eta and Lambda Chapters. Brother 
Mallory is the Professor of Physics at the Virginia Military Institute, 
and was an initiate of the chapter at Johns Hopkins University. 
Brother Letcher is a lawyer of Lexington, and was the author of the 
Amplified Secret Work, and was a member of Alpha and Beta 
Chapters. 

It will be seen that three of the above trustees, sufficient to consti- 
tute a quorum, are residents of Lexington. By an examination of 
the charter, it will be seen that the trustees may be increased to nine, 
and that they are subject to removal either by unanimous vote of the 
remaining trustees, or by the K. C, upon the request in writing of 
four-fifths of the Chapters. Alpha Chapter has no control or owner- 
ship in the hall, but the hall will be made the property of the Kappa 
Alpha Order, and a fire-proof vault will be constructed in this build- 
ing, to be the depository of the records and archives of the fraternity. 
It is anticipated that the hall will be rented at a proper figure to 
Alpha Chapter, and should the Virginia Military Institute ever repeal 
their anti-fraternity laws, so that an active Chapter could be revived 
there, it would also be rented for their meetings. • The plans provide for 
sufficient rooms in the building to accommodate Alpha Chapter, which 



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rooms will be rented at the rates prevailing in Lexington. With the 
rent obtained, the repairs on the building and expenses connected 
therewith would be paid. 

It is also proposed to request the trustees of Washington and Lee 
University to establish a Kappa Alpha Scholarship, to be bestowed 
by the Fraternity, and the recipient thereof would be the Fraternity's 
representative in the building. The Board of Trustees have taken a 
deep interest in this movement, and have agreed to the building being 
located upon their grounds at a point selected at the entrance of the 
avenue between the Virginia Military Institute and the Washington 
and Lee University. This site is just opposite the entrance to the 
avenue, behind a large tree, and to all who are familiar with the sur- 
roundings, this will be realized as the most beautiful and advantageous 
position at which a building could now be located upon the Washing- 
ton and Lee University grounds, and the most convenient for all 
purposes. The side of the building will be upon a public alley, from 
which coal, etc., could be delivered in the basement, and the front 
will face the entrance of Letcher avenue, which connects the Virginia 
Military Institute with Washington and Lee University grounds, and 
is the most beautiful residential section of Lexington. 

PLAN OF THE BUILDING. 

It is proposed to construct the building with a stone foundation, and 
the second and third stories of either stone or pressed brick and a slate 
roof. A portico to be in front with pillars and the style to be of 
Grecian architecture, in keeping with the professors' houses and the 
buildings of Washington and Lee. In the basement will be storage 
rooms for coal, etc., for the furnace and bath rooms. The second 
story will be devoted to the hall, the vault, entrance and ante-cham- 
bers and the third story will be divided into bed rooms. The esti- 
mated cost of the building will be about $8,500 or $9,000. 

FINANCIAL PLANS. 

Several hundred dollars have been raised by spontaneous subscrip- 
tions in cash and a considerable additional amount is covered by in- 
stallment subscriptions, forms for which will be found with this pam- 
phlet. Upon an examination of these forms, it will be seen that sub- 
scriptions may be made payable one-fourth cash, one-fourth when 
ground is broken for this building, one-fourth when the hall is under 
roof and one-fourth when the building is completed. The other form 






of subscription calls for one-fifth cash on demand and the balance in 
1, 2, 3 and 4 years, and to each subscription are appended notes to be 
signed, which may be used to draw on the subscribers through the 
bank. The above subscriptions are intended to guarantee the sub- 
scriber that his money will not be given and remain idle, but that he 
will only give his money as the work progresses. It is felt even with 
modest responses from Kappa Alphas scattered over the country, 
success will be attained and success must be attained. 

G. D. Letcher, Lexington, Va. , has been selected to receive all 
cash and written subscriptions, and the cash received is at once de- 
posited in the First National Bank, of Lexington, Va., and $100 3 
per cent, certificates are taken out as the amount accumulates. 

APPEAL TO KAPPA ALPHAS. 

The undersigned Trustees have undertaken this work of love and 
honor, and trust that a generous response will be made by Kappa 
Alphas everywhere. The Kappa Alpha Fraternity, although con- 
fined entirely to the South, has grown and spread beyond the most 
sanguine expectations of its founders and early members. This won- 
derful development and growth in size and influence can only be 
accounted for by the pure and noble and chivalrous principles ex- 
pounded by its teachings and embodied in its secret work. The Fra- 
ternity had its birth in the presence of and in the sphere of the 
splendid influence of Robert E. Lee, the great Southern Chieftain, 
and the influence for good over the lives of thousands could not be 
more fittingly memorialized than by the erection of the proposed hall 
in sight of the mausoleum of the great Lee on the grounds of Wash- 
ington and Lee University and within a gunshot of the grave of 
Stonewall Jackson, and in thus fittingly memorializing the founding 
of oar Fraternity Kappa Alphaism everywhere will honor itself. 

The cost of the building is fixed at a sum which will be worthy of 
the object, and at the same time can be easily raised if only modest 
responses are made by Kappa Alphas everywhere, and for the honor 
of the Fraternity this effort must not fail. 

To every Brother that this circular reaches, we appeal for a sub- 
scription as liberal as can be made. The installment plan of subscrip- 
tion makes it easier to give liberally, and at the same time will answer 
all purposes as well as if given in cash. Do not delay in making a 
response to the Treasurer and signing and returning to him one of the 
attached subscriptions. We trust that Kappa Alphas everywhere will 



aid the undersigned Trustees in this work, in which they have the 
same interest that the Trustees themselves have. Respond at once 
and respond liberally. We suggest that you make your subscriptions 
$20 on the installment plan, increasing it beyond this if you can ; and 
if you can not give so much, give what you can. 

Fraternally yours, 
S. Z. AMMEN, Chairman, 
TAZEWELL T. HUBARD, 
J. R. LONG, 
FRANCIS MALLORY, 
GREENLEE D. LETCHER, Treasurer, 

Trustees. 



CERTIFICATE FOR CHARTER 

OF THE 

KAPPA ALPHA MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION, 



We, the undersigned, J. R. Long, Francis Mallory and Greenlee D. Letcher, 
desiring to be made a body politic and corporate, do sign and acknowledge the 
following certificate, according to law, for that purpose : 

(a) The name of the corporation shall be the Kappa Alpha Memorial 
Association. 

(b) The principal and general office shall be located in Lexington, Rockbridge 
county, Virginia. 

(c) The purpose of this corporation shall be to buy, erect or receive by 
gift, devise, contract, conveyance or otherwise, property, real or personal, at 
Lexington, Va., or elsewhere, to be used as or in connection with a Hall of the 
Kappa Alpha Order, with grounds and appurtenances, to be used as a depository 
for the archives, records and papers of the Kappa Alpha Order or any chapter 
thereof, and for such other purposes as the hereinafter named Trustees or their 
successors may deem proper under suitable rules and regulations to be made by 
them ; the said Hall, etc., to memorialize the founding of the Kappa Alpha 
Order at Washington and Lee University in 1865, and to be used and held for 
the purposes above set out, and therewith to be held and enjoyed all necessary or 
convenient rights, easements, appurtenances and lands. There shall be no 
pecuniary profit to any one, but the said franchises and property are to be held 
and used solely for fraternal, benevolent and literary purposes, according to the 
principles and teachings of the Kappa Alpha Order. 

(d) The number of the trustees who are to manage the affairs of the corpora- 
tion shall be five which number may be increased to nine, as hereinafter set out. 

(e) The names of the trustees who are to manage the affairs of the Corporation 
for the first year of its existence, and thereafter, subject to the provisions and con- 
ditions hereinafter set out, are as follows : 

J. R. Long, Lexington, Virginia. 
Francis Mallory, Lexington, Virginia. 
Greenlee D. Letcher, Lexington, Virginia. 
S. Z. Ammen, Baltimore, Maryland. 
Tazewell T. Hubard, Norfolk, Virginia. 
(/") The corporation to be of unlimited duration, subject to the constitution 
and laws of Virginia. 

(g) The amount of real estate to which its holders at any time are to be limited 
shall be 25 acres. 

(h) All right, title and interest in the franchises and property acquired shall 
be, "and remain, vested in J. R. Long, Francis Mallory, Greenlee D. Letcher, 
S. Z. Ammen and Tazewell T. Hubard, Trustees, and their successors, who shall 
manage the affairs of the Corporation for the first year of its existence and there- 
after ; and upon the death, resignation, or vacancy happening otherwise, among 



the said Trustees or their successors, such vacancy or vacancies may be filled by 
those remaining, and any one of the said Trustees, or their successors, may be re- 
moved by the unanimous vote or consent, in writing, of all remaining, and if said 
Trustees, or their successors, shall deem it wise, at any time, to increase their 
number, they may do so to a number not exceeding nine, and any of their num- 
ber, or their successors, may be removed by the Knight Commander of the Kappa 
Alpha Order upon the request of four-fifths of the active chapters in writing ; and 
the said Corporation shall make a report to each biennial convention of the 
Kappa Alpha Order of its financial condition and the condition of its property. 
The said Trustees shall have power to make by-laws and regulations for the 
welfare and government of the affairs of the Corporation, and for the endowment, 
development and successful management of the aforesaid Memorial Hall and 
grounds and any other property owned ; and to amend or alter same at pleasure ; 
and may delegate to committees or individual members or agents such of their 
powers as they may deem advisable. 

Given under our hands this 3d day of June, 1903. 

J. R. Long, 
Francis Mallory, 
Greenlee D. Letcher. 

State of Virginia — County of Rockbridge, to-wit : 

I, Stella B. Deischer, a Notary Public for the county aforesaid, in the State of 
Virginia, do certify that J. R. Long, Francis Mallory and Greenlee D. Letcher, 
whose names are signed to the foregoing writing, bearing date on the 23d day of 
May, 1903, personally appeared before me in my county and State aforesaid and 
acknowledged the same. 

My term of office expires on the 29th day of August, 1906. 
Given under my hand this 4th day of June, 1903. 

Stella B. Deischer, 

Notary Public. 

In Re Charter of Kappa Alpha Memorial Association, 

In Vacation : 

I, S. H. Letcher, Judge of the Circuit Court of Rockbridge county, hereby 
certify that I have ascertained that J. R. Long, Francis Mallory and Greenlee 
D. Letcher, the persons signing and acknowledging the foregoing certificate, apply- 
ing for a charter, under the laws of Virginia, for the Kappa Alpha Memorial 
Association, are of good moral character, and suitable and proper persons to be 
incorporated for the purposes set forth in the said certificate ; and I further certify 
that, in my opinion, said certificate is signed and acknowledged in accordance 
with the requirements of the laws of Virginia. 

Given under my hand this 5th day of June, 1903. 

S. H. Letcher, 

Judge of the 13th Judicial Circuit Court of Virginia. 



COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, 
Department of the State Corporation Commission. 

Beverly T. Crump, Chairman ; Henry Fairfax, Henry C. Stuart. 

City of Eichmond, 9th Day of June, 1903. 

The accompanying certificate for incorporation, upon which no charter fee is 
required by law, having been presented to the State Corporation Commission by 
J. R. Long, Francis Mallory and Greenlee D. Letcher, and the Hon. S. H. 
Letcher, Judge of the Circuit Court of Rockbridge county, having certified that 
the said persons signing said certificate are of good moral character and suitable 
and proper persons to be incorporated for the purposes therein set forth, and that 
the said certificate has been signed and acknowledged by said applicants in accord- 
ance with law, the State Corporation Commission, having examined said certifi- 
cates, now declares that the said applicants have complied with the requirements 
of law, and have entitled themselves to a charter, and it is therefore ordered that 
the said J. R. Long, Francis Mallory and Greenlee D. Letcher, and their asso- 
ciates and successors, be, and they are, hereby made and created a body politic 
and corporate, under and by the name of Kappa Alpha Memorial Association, 
upon the terms and conditions and for the purposes set forth in said certificate, to 
the same extent as if the same were now herein transcribed in full (pursuant to 
the provisions of an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, entitled "An Act 
Concerning Corporations," which became a law the 21st day of May, 1903), and 
with all the powers and privileges conferred and subject to all the conditions and 
restrictions imposed by law. 

And said certificate, with this order, is hereby certified to the Secretary of the 
Commonwealth for record. 

(seal,) Beverly T. Crump, Chairman. 

John A. Upshur, Clerk. 

COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA. 
Office of Secretary of Commonwealth. 
In the City of Richmond, the 11th Day of June, 1903. 

The foregoing charter of Kappa Alpha Memorial Association was this day 
received and duly recorded in this office, and is hereby certified to the Clerk of 
the Circuit Court of Rockbridge county according to law. 

D. Q. Eggleston, 
Secretary of Commonwealth. 



Resolution of the Board of Trustees of Washington and Lee University Passed 
at the Regular Annual Meeting, June 16, 1903. 



Resolved, That whereas, it appearing that under a resolution of this body here- 
tofore passed, the Kappa Alpha Order, a Greek Letter College Fraternity founded 
in 1865, at Washington and Lee University, then Washington College, have 
taken steps to build a handsome Memorial Hall on the grounds of Washington 
and Lee, and pursuant to that end Prof. J. R. Long, of Washington and Lee 
University, Col. Francis Mallory, of the Virginia Military Institute, and Greenlee 
D. Letcher, of Lexington, Virginia, were incorporated on June 9, 1903, under 
the laws of Virginia applicable thereto, there were named in said charter as 
Trustees the aforesaid three incorporators, together with S. Z. Ammen, of the 
Baltimore Sun, an alumnus of Washington and Lee, and Tazewell T. Hubard, of 
Norfolk, Virginia, the grand Historian of the Kappa Alpha Fraternity ; and, 
whereas, it has been reported that about $900 have already been subscribed to the 
enterprise, and it is anticipated that steps will be immediately taken at the 
biennial convention of the Fraternity at large, which meets at Atlanta, Georgia, 
next week, to secure the balance, it is therefore resolved, that the privilege and 
right to locate said Memorial Hall on the grounds of Washington and Lee Uni- 
versity, be and hereby is reaffirmed and granted, and the location selected is 
approved, the same being on the edge of the ground opposite the entrance to the 
avenue leading to the Virginia Military Institute ; the said Memorial Hall to be 
held, used and occupied under rules and regulations to be made by the aforesaid 
Trustees, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees of Washington and Lee 
University. The building of the hall to be assured within five years from this 
date. It is further 

Resolved, That upon the completion of the Memorial Hall there will be estab- 
lished at Washington and Lee University a scholarship subject to the rules of 
the University, with tuition free, known as the Kappa Alpha scholarship, the 
holder to be selected by the authorities of the Kappa Alpha Order, the same, 
together with the Memorial Hall, to commemorate the founding of this large 
college fraternity at Washington and Lee University in 1865. 



SUBSCRIPTION TO KAPPA ALPHA MEMORIAL HALL. 



The undersigned hereby agrees and binds himself to subscribe to the Kappa 

Alpha Memorial Hall Dollars, 

($ ), and to pay the same to G. D. LETCHER, Trustee, as follows : 

One-fifth on demand after delivery of this agreement; one-fifth one year 
after date ; one-fifth two years after date ; one-fifth three years after date ; and 
one-fifth four years after date ; and I hereby authorize the Trustees, Treasurer, 

or proper authority to draw upon me through the Bank of 

attaching to the drafts the subjoined notes. 

Witness my hand and seal this day of , 

190... 

[seal. ] 



I hereby agree to pay to G. D. LETCHER, Trustee, 

Dollars ($ ) upon the presentation of this note to me in 

person, or attached to a draft drawn upon me in the usual course of business, four 
years after date; it being part of my subscription to the Kappa Alpha Memorial 
Hall at Lexington, Virginia. 

Given under my hand this day of , 190 . . 



I hereby agree to pay to G. D. LETCHER, Trustee, 

Dollars ($ ) upon the presentation of this note to me in 

person, or attached to a draft drawn upon me in the usual course of business, 
three years after date ; it being part of my subscription to the Kappa Alpha 
Memorial Hall at Lexington, Virginia. 

Given under my hand this day of , 190... 



I hereby agree to pay to G. D. LETCHER, Trustee 

Dollars ($ ) upon the presentation of this note to me in 

person, or attached to a draft drawn upon me in the usual course of business, two 
years after date ; it being part of my subscription to the Kappa Alpha Memorial 
Hall at Lexington, Virginia. 

Given under my hand this day of , 190... 



I hereby agree to pay to G. D. LETCHER, Trustee, 

Dollars ($. ) upon the presentation of this note to me in 

person, or attached to a draft drawn upon me in the usual course of business, one 
year after date ; it being part of my subscription to the Kappa Alpha Memorial 
Hall at Lexington, Virginia. 

Given under my hand this day of , 190 . . 



I hereby agree to pay to G. D. LETCHER, Trustee, 

Dollars ($ ) upon the presentation of this note to me in 

person, or attached to a draft drawn upon me in the usual course of business, on 
demand ; the same being one-fifth of my subscription to the Kappa Alpha 
Memorial Hall at Lexington, Virginia. 

Given under my hand this day of , 190... 



SUBSCRIPTION TO KAPPA ALPHA MEMORIAL HALL. 



The undersigned hereby agrees and binds himself to subscribe to the Kappa 

Alpha Memorial Hall, Dollars, 

($ ), and to pay the same to G. D. LETCHEE, Trustee, as follows : 

One-fourth on demand after delivery of this agreement ; one-fourth when ground 
is broken for the building ; one-fourth when the building is under roof, and the 
remaining one-fourth when building is finished, and I hereby authorize the 
Trustees, Treasurer or proper authority to draw upon me through the Bank of 
attaching to the drafts the subjoined notes. 

Witness my hand and seal this day of , 190... 

[seal.] 

$ , 190.. 



I hereby agree to pay to G. D. LETCHEE, Trustee, 

Dollars ($ ), upon the presentation of this note to me in 

person, or attached to a draft drawn upon me in the usual course of business, 
upon the completion of the Kappa Alpha Memorial Hall at Lexington, Virginia, 
the same being one«fourth of my subscription to the said Memorial Hall. 



$ , 190.. 

I hereby agree to pay to G. D. LETCHEE, Trustee, 

Dollars ($ ), upon the presentation of this note to me in 

person, or attached to a draft drawn upon me in the usual course of business, 
when the Kappa Alpha Memorial Hall at Lexington, Virginia, is under roof, the 
same being one-fourth of my subscription to the said Memorial Hall at Lexington, 
Virginia. 



$ , 190.. 

I hereby agree to pay to G. D. LETCHEE, Trustee 

Dollars ($ ), upon the presentation of this note to me in 

person or attached to a draft drawn upon me in the usual course of business, 
Avhen ground is broken for the Kappa Alpha Memorial Hall at Lexington, Vir- 
ginia, the same being one-fourth of my subscription to the said Memorial Hall at 
Lexington, Virginia. 



$ , 190... 

I hereby agree to pay to G. D. LETCHEE, Trustee, 

Dollars ($ ), upon the presentation of this note to me in 

person, or attached to a draft drawn upon me in the usual course of business, on 
demand, the same being one-fourth of my subscription to the Kappa Alpha 
Memorial Hall at Lexington, Virginia. 



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